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Job Description
Provide therapy to patients with visual impairments to improve their functioning in daily life activities. May train patients in activities such as computer use, communication skills, or home management skills.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1122.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists”.
Also Known As…
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (VRT)
- Teacher of the Visually Impaired
- Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI)
- Orientation and Mobility Specialist
- Orientation and Mobility Instructor
- Orientation & Mobility Specialist
- Mobility Specialist
- Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS)
- Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist
- Certified Low Vision Therapist
- Vision Therapist
- Vision Specialist
- Rehabilitation Teacher
- Low Vision Therapist
- Global Mobility Specialist
- Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist
Tasks for “Orientation and Mobility Therapist for the Blind”
- Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
- Obtain, distribute, or maintain low vision devices.
- Monitor clients' progress to determine whether changes in rehabilitation plans are needed.
- Teach independent living skills or techniques such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.
- Identify visual impairments related to basic life skills in areas such as self-care, literacy, communication, health management, home management, and meal preparation.
- Teach clients to travel independently using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.
- Design instructional programs to improve communication using devices such as slates and styluses, braillers, keyboards, adaptive handwriting devices, talking book machines, digital books, and optical character readers (OCRs).
- Refer clients to services, such as eye care, health care, rehabilitation, and counseling, to enhance visual and life functioning or when condition exceeds scope of practice.
- Teach cane skills including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.
- Train clients to use adaptive equipment such as large print, reading stands, lamps, writing implements, software, and electronic devices.
- Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.
- Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.
- Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.
- Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and propioceptive information.
- Participate in professional development activities such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues.
- Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
- Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.
- Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals.
- Train clients to read or write Braille.
- Train clients with visual impairments to use mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
Related Technology & Tools
- Flashlight color filters
- Adjustable task lamps
- Envelope addressing guides
- Anti-glare visors
- Lea symbols near vision cards
- Bar magnifiers
- Needle threaders
- Feinbloom distance charts
- Monoculars
- Astigmatism wheel charts
- Rulers
- Lea symbols 10-line distance charts
- Stacking rings
- Flashlights
- Lea symbols domino cards
- Stand magnifiers
- Penlights
- Print readers
- Slicing guides
- Medical measuring tapes
- Braille embossers
- Cone adaptation test sets
- Handheld magnifiers
- Lea symbols 15-line distance charts
- Illuminated magnifiers
- Amsler grids
- Dome magnifiers
- Snellen eye charts
- Lea symbols single symbol books
- Braille personal digital assistants
- Braille writers
- Check writing guides
- Contrast sensitivity test cards
- Color discs
- Braille label makers
- Lea crowded symbol books
- Night scopes
- Lea numbers 10-line distance charts
- Lea numbers 15-line distance charts
- Closed circuit television monitors
- Eye occluders
- Large text keyboards
- Tactile maps
- Pointers
- Finger puppets
- Lea numbers near vision cards
- Illuminated cabinets
- Piano glasses
- Lea grating paddles
- Long canes
- HOTV charts
- Plastic eye models
- Near vision acuity charts
- Lea single presentation flash cards
- Braille laptop computers
- Stop watches
- Lea symbols Massachusetts visual acuity test format near vision screeners
- Reading stands
- Signature guides
- Copyholders
- Writing guides
- Bailey-Lovie Acuity Chart
- Worthmore four-dot test devices
- Lea symbols playing cards
- Ai Squared ZoomText
- American Printing House for the Blind Learn Keys
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Axistive BigShot Screen Magnifier
- American Printing House for the Blind Talking Typer
- ZoomWare Screen Magnifier
- Internet browser software
- Freedom Scientific MAGic
- Dolphin Lunar
- Microsoft Word
- Arkenstone Atlas Speaks